with having been responsible for handling those documents to journalists is none other than the pope's butler, and this had been thought to be an important day in this whole legal process. he had been scheduled to testify in the court room for the first time since his arrest, but there is a very strict vatican news blackout on the proceedings and i just could not tell you yet what he said or did not say. before the procedures began, prosecutors claimed that he had confessed, that he had admitted to leaking these documents because he said he saw corruption everywhere in the church, in his words. perhaps he has been framing that kind of defense throughout the course of the morning. >> we will have to wait and see what transpires in court, but this comes after things light the child abuse scandal. how damaging has this been for the church? >> there was one very serious sounding the credit the beginning from one senior figure in the vatican. the first was that they had allegedly found corruption in the vatican. but there was another lesson later with a besieged the pope to stop him from being shu